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I finally got to the bottom of why The Lovely Harvey refuses to make a character and play in our reindeer games GURPS.
I knew she'd had a bad experience with Dumbass Shitheel and a little throw-away fantasy world I'd made for them to play in and for her to learn how to game.
But I'd no idea how bad.
She'd known Dumbass years longer than I had and he'd not only left her hanging, he actively led to her character getting killed.
That was in game.
The way he treated her about it out of game made her say, "I'm never going to do this again!"
Worse, his treatment of her was reinforced by, some, of the people at my table when she hung around an kibitzed when we visited Iowa and from how some of her questions were answered at my 30th birthday party gaming session.
I think I know which people too.
I don't think they're still in FuzzyGeff's group any more.
Hazing and chauvinism are not good ways to get women involved in the hobby, gentlemen.
She got the impression that she was thought to be stupid because she didn't know everything we knew about gaming.
How could a beginner?
She's definitely not stupid.
She was just never given a fair chance at learning the game and then was treated poorly by some people AND overhear them being chauvinistic sexist pricks while I was doing GM stuff.
In a lot of ways I am happy that I lost contact with a few of them. Might lead to me getting a sore throat from the screaming I wanna do at them.
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